When i got into cycling the very serious ones were like "you must buy chamois butter! you'll regret the chafing!!" but honest to god i've just never chafed. Still buy the chamois butter and use it if you're like going for a personal record but just saying you could get lucky.

To be loved is to be changed etc etc

I only know a few real humans who use it regularly still, so i wouldn't rule out the chance the sea of born-yesterday posts is an AI thing. It's got that vibe of grammar+syntax correctness for sentences written by authors who've never come into contact with reality.

there's a probably fake story that, in their expansion, McDonald's spent millions on market studies to determine the optimal locations, then Burger King would just build near wherever a McDonald's went up

(guy who rewatched Starship Troopers last week) i think Starship Troopers is much more civic than blood-and-soil, if i'm picking up what youre putting down

tracks, the vibe here is temporarily embarrassed hall monitors

the Harris people are great fwiw

yeah campaigns matter

Like on a purely aesthetic level a choice between “old patriot soldiering on to beat the American fascist he despises in the core of his being” and “mostly-anonymous Ivy League nepo babies leaking gossip about how the old patriot needs to go die quietly” isn’t very hard

afaik QT is still majority family owned. but it's accurate they can't staff at the level they need to when you can pull 15-20/hr here at very much less demanding jobs. they've started down the road of annoying stuff that drives paying customers away (side doors locked, scan ID to open beer case,etc

this case on the merits shouldve been a unanimous dunk but the only full dissent was Stitts most recent appointee. other Rs recused or concurred with, yknow, the constitution

standing in line googling which justices to vote to retain based on when they were appointed is another case of this state being the upside-down; arguably the best justice was appointed in _1984_